TO DO: 1) Preheat the oven to 180C 2) Get your little one's to add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, cinnamon & nutmeg into a bowl & mix.3) Meanwhile use hands need to melt the butter, sugar & golden syrup in a pan over a low heat, string until the sugar dissolves. ​4) Pour into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix together until it forms a dough. 5) Roll the dough into a ball & put onto a floured surface6) Let your little one's roll to around 5mm thick, cutting out the reindeers & carefully putting them on a sheet of baking paper. 7) Cook for 12 minutes & leave to cool.........

To decorate, mix icing sugar, cocopowder & water together to create icing (keep adding until it is thick enough to hold on your spoon).Turn your gingerbread man upside down and put the icing on to create the face (see photos above).We used white chocolate chip's for the eyes, smarties for the nose and icing pens for the details.

If you can manage not to scoff them all, let the icing set to make them extra tasty!

Since using this recipe for the Easter Brownies I have been dying for an excuse to get back in the kitchen to make these again... because they are a little bit naughty.. but SO YUMMY.. and Christmas seems like the perfect excuse!

So this time we cut them into bit sized triangle and decorated them as Christmas Trees!!

WHAT TO DO:1) Preheat the oven to 180C2) Break the chocolate into small pieces into a heat proof bowl & add butter. Melt in microwave, do short bursts & mix until the chocolate & butter has melted. 3) Whilst the chocolate melts put the eggs & sugar into a different bowl and mix until it thickens.. this should take about 3 minutes of mixing. 4) Add the melted chocolate and slowly stir until mixture in combined5) Sift flour & cocoa powder & stir until mixture is combined6) Add chocolate chips7) Line a 20cm square tin with baking paper & pour in mixture8) Cook for 20minutes. Check it is cooked through.9) Cut into bite size triangle and decorate!

With 1 more month until Christmas the LITTLE CHEF'S will be baking some christmas goodies to get us in the mood. Starting with the classic Mince pies… but for those who aren't a fan of the mince, we have also done yummy jam ones too!

This is such a simple recipe to make with your little one's! They can enjoy mixing, getting messy hands, rolling the dough AND cutting out the shapes!

1) Preheat the oven to 180C and lightly grease a muffin tin with 12 holes 2) Put the flour, icing sugar and butter into a bowl and rub together to form breadcrumbs3) Add egg and mix together, using hands to then form a ball of dough(It really couldn't be simpler to make this yummy pastry!)4) Put the dough in the fridge for 10 minutes to firm up5) Roll the firm pastry out until thin5) Cut out 12 circles (your cutter should be slightly larger than the hole in your muffin tin).6) Cut out 12 Star shapes6) Push them into the muffin tins 7) Fill with a small teaspoon of jam or mince meat8) Put your star on top of your pie and glaze with either milk or a beaten egg9) Cook for 15-20 minutes until the pastry is golden 10) Allow to cool and sprinkle icing sugar on top

There you have it.. your yummy pies to get you into the Christmas spirit!

Each week on the run up to Christmas there will be a new christmas recipe so keep your eyes pealed!

1) Preheat oven to 180C2) Cream butter, sugars and coco powder together3) Add the egg and mix4) Add the flour and mix well5) Spoon mixure evenly into 6 small cupcake cases (or double recipe to make 12 small or 6 large) 6) Cook for 12 minutes and let them cool. 7) Meanwhile mix the butter, icing sugar and melted chocolate together to make the icing! 8) Once the cakes are cooled get your little one to decorate them, putting on the icing, sprinkling the crushed oreos & putting in the wiggly worms!

​HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

I'm not going to even try and get away with this being even a little bit healthy.. there is nothing healthy about this recipe but I do promise you this is SO DELICIOUS! With chocolate everywhere.. this has definitely been my favourite so far!

Perfect for a halloween treat for your little ones by adding wiggly worms (Strawberry laces).. but this is so good you could even make it for bigger tums to impress your friends at a dinner party! ​ This recipe is to make 1 large cheesecake in a 20cm cake tin. To make little one's, buy plastic cups and get crafty cutting off the tops to make little pots for little tums, and simply divide the mixture up.

2) To make the base, crush your oreos until there are no large bits(your little one can have lots of fun doing this. We put our oreos in a bowl and used the end of a rolling pin to crush it)3) Mix in your melted butter4) Press your butter/ oreo mixture into the bottom of the tin, squashing it down using the back of a spoon. Put this in the fridge whilst you make your filing.

5) Put double cream, cream cheese & vanilla extract into a large bowl and whisk (You may need to run off to use your electric whisk. The consistency should be thick enough that it holds on a spoon.)6) Melt white chocolate using a bowl siting over a pan of hot water (the water should have just boiled and now taken off the heat). Don't let it get too hot. Once melted let it cool before adding it to your mixture and whisk again until combined.

7) Spoon a 3rd of the mixture on top of your biscuit base and return it back to the fridge.

8) Meanwhile melt the milk chocolate. Let this cool and add it to the remaining mixture, leaving a couple of tablespoons of chocolate spare. 9) Take your cake out of the fridge and add the rest of the mixture, smoothing it down with a back of a spoon. 10) You can now use your spare melted milk chocolate to pouring over the top, making lines ontop of your cheesecake (this will cool and make a yummy contrast against the soft cheesecake!) 11) Crush 75g oreos & sprinkle ontop of your cheesecake and return to the fridge for 2 hours.

** To make it a yummy halloween special you can add worm sweets or strawberry laces to make it look like there are wiggly worms trying to escape!! **

Prepping for your halloween party and want to make yummy treats for your little one's and their friends? This is perfect! It is easy peasy but looks fantastic and your little one can help along the way too!!

(Ofcourse these can be make just as yummy orange cupcakes during the rest of the year.. they are too delicious to only come out during halloween!)

(This recipe will make 6 small cupcakes, the recipe is good for doubling)

1) Preheat your oven to 180C2) Add the butter and sugars into the bowl and cream together3) Add the egg and mix4) Sift in the flour & add the zest and mix well6) Spoon mixture evenly into 6 small cupcake tins if you are doing the recipe above. Double to make 12 small cupcakes of 6 large cupcakes. 7) Cook for 12minutes 8) Let cool​9) Meanwhile mix the butter, icing sugar, orange and orange food colouring together until smooth. 10) Roll of a line of black icing and cut with a knife into small triangles.

11) When your cupcakes are cool, cover your cupcake in the yummy icing, put the triangles on the cake to make eyes and a nose. To make the mouths roll a small sausage using to black icing and put on the cake! Voila! You now have your little pumpkin cupcakes!

Below are some of the cakes THE LITTLE CHEF'S made in my class! Didn't they do well!

What could be more fun than recreating your family in ginger bread form! In my photos I just did one of the same size as unfortunately my different sized cutters hadn't arrived in time; but for my class with the LITTLE CHEF'S they used different sized cutters, as well as a dog, to create yummy gingerbreads of their families.

This is a great recipe for little hands as once the dough is made they love to roll it & squish it (just like playdough), and of course after the cookies have been cooked and cooled your little one's can get creative using icing pens, chocolate chips and raisins!

TO DO: 1) Preheat the oven to 180C 2) Get your little one's to add the flour, bicarbonate of soda, ginger, cinnamon & nutmeg into a bowl & mix.3) Meanwhile big hands need to melt the butter, sugar & golden syrup in a pan over a low heat, string until the sugar dissolves. ​4) Pour into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix together until it forms a dough. 5) Roll the dough into a ball & put onto a floured surface6) Let your little one's roll to around 5mm thick, cutting out your family members & carefully putting them on a sheet of baking paper. 7) Cook for 12 minutes & leave to cool.8) Once cool your little one's can get creative with the icing!

1) Preheat the oven to 180C2) Add the butter & sugar into the bowl and mix3) Add the egg4) Add the vanilla essence5) Sift the flour into the bowl and mix well7) Separate the mixture into different bowls, adding different colouring to each bowl8) Put spoonfuls of each colour into cupcake cases. One colour ontop of the other9) Cook for 12 minutes (to test they are cooked put a knife through the cake.. if the knife comes out clean then it is cooked :))

10) Leave to cool 11) Make icing by mixing all ingredients together​12) Ice cakes… AND EAT!!

This is a great fun (AND YUMMY) activity to do with Little one's who are interested in counting and numbers..These Cheesy number's are similar texture to breadsticks & can be kept in a container for 3 days, making them ideal for tasty snacks throughout the week.

WHAT TO DO: 1) Preheat the oven to 180°C2) Add the butter & sugar into a bowl and mix together3) Add the golden syrup & vanilla essence4) Mix in the flour & chocolate chunks5) Take a teaspoon of the mixture, roll it into a ball and put onto baking paper, flattening it slightly with the palm of your hand6) Cook for 12 minutes. The cookies will still be slightly soft but will harden once cooled

Once cooled.. if there is any left.. your little one's may choose to decorate with icing!​